Would you stay at the home of another academic you had some loose connection with? Could the Airbnb model be successfully applied to help find accommodation for scientists travelling to meetings, visiting another lab, or even for longer sabbatical stays? I’m not sure but Pub-Bed […]
PacBio announced a baby RSII yesterday, which should be in the shops just in time for Christmas! The Sequel System (sounds like SequalPrep from Thermo for PCR cleanup) sounds like a big advance on the enormous RSII. Most aspects of the sequencing work flow are […]
My lab is looking to put an additional HiSeq 2500 v4 in place, Illumina do not have any (refurbs) to sell in the US or Europe so I thought I’d post here to see if any Core Genomics readers have an instrument they are looking […]
I built several TwitterBots last year to scrape papers on PubMed (thanks again to Casey), these have turned out to be really useful in alerting me to new work but last night I got a very interesting Tweet from @MattiasAine…I decided to take a look […]
Rubicon Genomics have a webinar on Creating Cell-free DNA Libraries with ThruPLEX Plasma-seq that was broadcast on September 17th 2015. The new PlasmaSeq kit has a very simple, 3-step, 15 minutes hands on time, single-tube workflow.Dr. Kamran Shazand, Rubicon Genomics’ Director of Applications presented an […]
I’m incredibly lucky because I don’t usually need to write grants. My lab is core funded by CRUK to provide genomics services to the CRUK- Cambridge Institute. However I do like to keep an eye out for opportunities to bring funding in for specific projects.Our […]
ChIP-seq can only really work if you have a good antibody for the protein of interest. Any non-specific binding is going to add noise to your data making motif finding, differential binding analysis difficult or even impossible. Back in 2008 Mathias Uhlén’s group at the […]
Sorry about the accidental posting…here’s the final version. Innes Barroso, Head of Human Genetics at Sanger Institute “Genomics and Metabolic Disease – what have we learned so far”Type 2 diabetes, many patients controlled by table some on insulin, it is a very complex disorder, both […]
Andrew Beggs is chairing the clinical genomics session – this is why I am here, cool stuff!Interesting that the Tolstoy quote from Pippa Thomson’s talk (see below) “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” came up, as it […]
Day 2 Single cell was popular, but were all crammed over in the Arts building somewhere close to Solihull. Nick forgot to organise a coach so we had to walk, I guess we’re building up an appetite for the street food tonight! Bill Hanage asked […]
